The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

A mathematical model based on materials physics was able to reproduce 12,000 years of human growth and warns about the ...

Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...

Food labels make calories seem simple. They show the number of calories per serving, which is calculated based on how much ...

In 1960, three scientists published a paper in Science that calculated, with deliberate provocation, that the human ...

According to a mathematical model of how people weigh up different outcomes, the optimal strategy is to be ambitious, but not overly so ...

Model created by researchers shows better outcomes are often more likely when people are not too ambitious ...

Teaching math to English learners in middle and high school requires a nuanced approach. Those students are often at very ...

We experience the universe in four dimensions: three spatial dimensions and time. But what if that number isn’t fixed? What ...

Time is a unique resource in economics because we cannot create more of it and are subject to its limitations. Ludwig von Mises and the Austrians understand the ...